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“For us, it makes a lot of sense,” Boise Co-op marketing manager Mo Valko explains. “We’ve got the Wine Shop. I just think this is a great way to get the younger generation of wine drinkers.”

Uncorked! will be an approachable wine bar with a variety of choices from around the state, region and world. “We’ll have a lot of wines at great prices,” she says. “This isn’t just high-end cellar wines.”

Beer drinkers will have options, too. Uncorked! will have four taps — three for rotating craft beers, one for hard cider.

And if you’re looking for pours from those trendy, automated wine dispensers?

“No way,” Valko says. “We have real humans. Who know a lot about wine. I think that’s one of the things we do best at the Wine Shop.”

The tapas-style menu at Uncorked! will come from the Boise Co-op deli, but it will be unique to the bar. And it will include filling entrees.

“Like, you can get a half a roast chicken with salad,” Valko says. “So people can eat a full meal there. And we’ll do cheese plates.

“But if people want to grab a burrito from the store and come across the street and hang out in the wine bar, they can do that.”

The 500-square-foot space will hold about two dozen customers. There also will be a patio outside — just in time for Uncorked!’s target opening date of June.

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Fort Street Station, a new public house at 808 W. Fort St., opened in late June in the North End of Boise. Video by Michael Deeds/mdeeds@idahostatesman.com. Photo of wine and food courtesy Fudo Jahic Photo.